Memory and back
pain. Cognition and back pain. Is there a link?
Ask any Vancouver back pain sufferer who’s had the pain
for some time, and you will hear just how the mind and memory just
don’t seem to work like normal when pain is in
play. Vancouver Disc Centers gets it. Back pain specialists like yours at Vancouver Disc Centers understand this connection. Pain affects
the brain and its memory function. Chiropractic care works to decrease
the pain, and Vancouver Disc Centers may propose some curcumin to aid
in the pain relief…and memory and cognition improvement.
CURCUMIN FOR MEMORY ISSUES
Chronic pain sufferers recognize
that their pain affects their quality of life. It slows them
down. It holds them back. They also experience stress due to their chronic pain and non-pain-related problems
which worsens their symptoms. It is a vicious
cycle. These pain and stress feelings as well as emotions,
learning, and memory are processed by the hippocampus.
Neuropathic pain impacts the nervous system, and hippocampal
neurogenesis, its growth and development of nervous tissue, is exacerbated
by stress. (1) To combat this negative effect on
the nervous system, researchers are looking to
nutrients like curcumin. Curcumin reduced chronic pain
and enhanced cognitive impairment and memory deficit linked to long-term sciatic nerve constriction. Researchers explain that hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity
improvements may be acknowledged, so we will just thank them (and be grateful that researchers know the
process!) instead of working to fully get them
ourselves. (2) Vancouver Disc Centers cares for many Vancouver
leg pain patients and their pain relief from a compressed and
irritated sciatic nerve. Curcumin may help both memory and
sciatica!
CURCUMIN FOR SCIATICA
There is convincing
evidence that curcumin has an important role in the
treatment of pathological pain stemming from sciatic nerve injury,
neuropathy and such. (3) Current drugs for acute pain (opioids,
NSAIDs, acetaminophen and such) help but also have side-effects
(renal, liver, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal) and hold a
potential for abuse. This persuaded a few researchers
to study curcumin more. Curcumin is reported
to have anti-inflammatory and analgesic pain-reducing effects…without the
side-effects. (4) Other researchers discovered that nanocurcumin (a
soluble form of curcumin) stopped pain-related behavior, reduced
inflammatory markers and improved memory deficient and spatial
learning in chronically constricted rats. (5) Curcumin may be applicable
for your Vancouver back pain condition, too. Vancouver Disc Centers will delve
into this with you at your next Vancouver chiropractic appointment.
CONTACT Vancouver Disc Centers
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. James Cox on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes the benefit of nutrition in the relieving
treatment of Vancouver back pain and sciatica in The Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your
Vancouver chiropractic appointment now. Chiropractic
care for sciatica and chronic-pain-related memory and
cognition problems may be better helped by adding curcumin. Let’s discuss it at
your next appointment.
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